Standpoint Phenomenology

Methodologies of Breakdown, Sign, and Wonder
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-55458-2
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 266 g

This book introduces a standpoint approach to phenomenology and reconceives the phenomenological project as not an individual but a communal endeavor—one that, importantly, requires insight from across the spectrum of human experience and especially experiences of those who have traditionally been absent from the discipline. To develop this approach, the book draws on the feminist tradition of standpoint epistemology. The book borrows two of standpoint epistemology’s key theses—that of situated knowledge (what we know is shaped and often limited by our social location) and inverted privilege (epistemological advantage can in some contexts be inversely related to one’s social location). In standpoint phenomenology, these develop into the thesis of situated phenomenology and inverted phenomenological privilege respectively. This book presents three specific methodologies that support the standpoint approach to phenomenology: the methodologies of breakdown, sign, and wonder. All have their origins in the classical phenomenological work of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. Though these methods are used by these phenomenologists, they are not explicitly articulated or explained in any detail. The book lays out how and why these methodologies can be used to reveal the conditions supporting human existence and then highlights the role each might play in a standpoint approach to phenomenology.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Problem of Standpoint in Phenomenology.- Chapter 2: Standpoint Epistemology/Standpoint Phenomenology.- Chapter 3: Three Methodologies: Breakdown, Sign, & Wonder.- Chapter 4: The Methodology of Breakdown as a Standpoint Approach.-Chapter 5: Of Signs and Signals.- Chapter 6: Wonder and Standpoint.- Chapter 7: Finding Out Who We are Together.

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Ward is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bucknell University (USA).